Mission Analytics, LLC (B-423198)

You should not care.

Category: Technical evaluation, price reasonableness

Date: 26 February 2025

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423053%2Cb-423053.2

Mission Analytics, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, protested Air Force’s award of a fixed-price contract to ThunderCat Technology, LLC, for audiovisual upgrades at Travis Air Force Base. Mission Analytics challenged its exclusion from consideration, arguing that the Air Force improperly evaluated its technical capability and failed to adequately assess the awardee’s price reasonableness.

GAO denied the protest, finding that Mission Analytics was reasonably rated technically unacceptable because it failed to include sufficient detail on key requirements. Specifically, its proposal lacked a clear plan for installing a confidence monitor in the auditorium, omitting necessary details on placement and integration. (A confidence monitor is a secondary display, typically positioned facing the speaker, that mirrors the main presentation content's slides or visuals.)

Additionally, its pricing was not evaluated as only technically acceptable proposals were considered. GAO also upheld Air Force’s price reasonableness determination, which was based on a comparison to other quotations, market research, an independent government estimate, and prior contracts, denying the protest.

Digest

1. Protest challenging agency’s evaluation of protester’s technical capability is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
2. Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of awardee’s price is denied where the record shows the agency conducted and adequately documented its price reasonableness analysis.